This reminds me of people oohing and ahhing that we've experienced 2 palindromic years quite close together, 1991 and 2002, and we won't see that again for quite some time. It's completely absurd though, for the reason you mention. ALL years are palindromes, in at least two bases (a number N is a palindrome in base N-1, and in the trivial case of base N). Some fool wrote an article about this in the NY Times, and I wrote a letter in about it. Poor 10-fingered people...
Initially, when The Golden Compass was introduced in the States, it was published by Random House, and my mother was the sales rep primarily responsible for promoting his book in New England. I was all of 13 at the time, but I remember while we were in Williamsburg he tried to pick my brain about theoretical physics. Uhhh... sir, I think you'd better read "Hyperspace" for yourself. The man was really quite genuine and pleasant, however. What I am trying to say is.... I forget. But he's nice. Yes, he is that.
Hahahahaha, sometimes I swear I have the mind of a 50 year old. Now, to find my car keys...
that swatch.beat watch is, uhh, something alright. I tried using the "internet time converter", and it told me that noon converts to @791 beats. Didn't they say that the day is divided up into 1000 beats? Sheesh. I know the days are getting shorter, but c'mon... I'm definitely not a morning person, and considering only 219/1000 beats of the day would then exist afternoon, I'll be in trouble.
Ow. that would hurt, man. the stopwatch would be a miniature sanding tool. Thanks, but i prefer to not have it look like there's a rabid mouse up my sleeve.
And there's that bloody promotional video, which I can't understand at all. If anyone knows norwegian, can they please translate the script? I don't even understand the purpose of the "acting" scenes in it. Where was the watch? Why did they try to reenact The Matrix? I've seen that a dozen more times than I absolutely needed to, thanks.
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I need one of those. My clock is of the fuzzy-broken variety, which is of course right twice a day, and the rest of the time it's off by an average of 3.5 hours.
Let's not forget 12 Monkeys, another great movie that involves an asylum and its inhabitants. It's a counterexample to the sane-people-thought-crazy notion, with Brad Pitt playing a character who is clearly off his nut, but is the first to be released (of course, along with the influence of his father). Hmm... is that a giraffe I see on the expressway?
I for one am alarmed at the rate at which restrictions are being placed on the data one may access over college networks. I am a student at Northwestern University (the OTHER Wildcats), and the most recent measure taken here has been the blocking of access to napster. Traffic to the napster server was taking up a significant portion (%20-30) of available bandwidth, and I can see how the network administrators might do that for any site, regardless of the content offered. I am disgusted by the fact that this representative is attempting to restrict the content that legal adults can view in a private environment, without any implied negative effects on others around them. Who does she think she is? What portion of the population does she think she is representing? And her further actions of attempting to restrict who may enter these adults' rooms is (er, are) the straw to break the camel's back. If I were more eloquent, I would send a veiled insult to her intelligence disguised as a formal letter of opinion of her proposed policies. Anyone else want to try it instead of me?
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Haha, very funny. I believe the "Ng" is pronounced "Ing".
This reminds me of people oohing and ahhing that we've experienced 2 palindromic years quite close together, 1991 and 2002, and we won't see that again for quite some time. It's completely absurd though, for the reason you mention. ALL years are palindromes, in at least two bases (a number N is a palindrome in base N-1, and in the trivial case of base N). Some fool wrote an article about this in the NY Times, and I wrote a letter in about it. Poor 10-fingered people...
Initially, when The Golden Compass was introduced in the States, it was published by Random House, and my mother was the sales rep primarily responsible for promoting his book in New England. I was all of 13 at the time, but I remember while we were in Williamsburg he tried to pick my brain about theoretical physics. Uhhh... sir, I think you'd better read "Hyperspace" for yourself. The man was really quite genuine and pleasant, however. What I am trying to say is.... I forget. But he's nice. Yes, he is that.
Hahahahaha, sometimes I swear I have the mind of a 50 year old. Now, to find my car keys...
that swatch .beat watch is, uhh, something alright. I tried using the "internet time converter", and it told me that noon converts to @791 beats. Didn't they say that the day is divided up into 1000 beats? Sheesh. I know the days are getting shorter, but c'mon... I'm definitely not a morning person, and considering only 219/1000 beats of the day would then exist afternoon, I'll be in trouble.
Ow. that would hurt, man. the stopwatch would be a miniature sanding tool. Thanks, but i prefer to not have it look like there's a rabid mouse up my sleeve.
And there's that bloody promotional video, which I can't understand at all. If anyone knows norwegian, can they please translate the script? I don't even understand the purpose of the "acting" scenes in it. Where was the watch? Why did they try to reenact The Matrix? I've seen that a dozen more times than I absolutely needed to, thanks.
I need one of those. My clock is of the fuzzy-broken variety, which is of course right twice a day, and the rest of the time it's off by an average of 3.5 hours.
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oh great, someone already said this. that's what i get for not searching the discussion before posting...
Let's not forget 12 Monkeys, another great movie that involves an asylum and its inhabitants. It's a counterexample to the sane-people-thought-crazy notion, with Brad Pitt playing a character who is clearly off his nut, but is the first to be released (of course, along with the influence of his father). Hmm... is that a giraffe I see on the expressway?
I for one am alarmed at the rate at which restrictions are being placed on the data one may access over college networks. I am a student at Northwestern University (the OTHER Wildcats), and the most recent measure taken here has been the blocking of access to napster. Traffic to the napster server was taking up a significant portion (%20-30) of available bandwidth, and I can see how the network administrators might do that for any site, regardless of the content offered. I am disgusted by the fact that this representative is attempting to restrict the content that legal adults can view in a private environment, without any implied negative effects on others around them. Who does she think she is? What portion of the population does she think she is representing? And her further actions of attempting to restrict who may enter these adults' rooms is (er, are) the straw to break the camel's back. If I were more eloquent, I would send a veiled insult to her intelligence disguised as a formal letter of opinion of her proposed policies. Anyone else want to try it instead of me?